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1 Paisa - Sher Shah Suri
| Issuer | Sur Empire |
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| Year | 1540-1545 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Mintage | ND (1540-1545) |
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Sher Shah Suri's copper paisa sits within one of the most consequential monetary reforms in pre-Mughal South Asia. Having ousted Humayun in 1540, Sher Shah overhauled a fragmented coinage system, standardizing weights and metals across a fractured subcontinent — a reform so effective that Akbar later built the Mughal system directly on its foundations. The Sur reign lasted only fifteen years total, with Sher Shah himself dying in a gunpowder accident at Kalinjar in 1545.
Five years of production compressed into a single reign makes clean attribution by regnal year nearly impossible for most copper issues.